45_70sharps

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Very true.
If you are an actual engineer you will have an engineering license that you took an engineering test to get.
Your licence will be governed by your states board of registration and under a separate branch with a board of registration that has engineers and surveyors on it ( usually about a two to one ratio favoring engineers ).
You will have special laws and administrative code that govern your actions and ethical behavior.

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Let's see if I keep this updated!

On tap
Black Butte clone

In secondary
Pumpkin ale

In primary
Honey wit

Up next.. Firestone Union Jack clone

passedpawn

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I'm one. Not just in degree, but I actually design electronic devices, mostly medical. Schematic design, PCB layout, firmware, soldering, debugging. I have a 1-man consulting company. I know there are others here.

I just finished the board layout for a really cool O2 sensor tonight. It will measure the O2 concentration using light. I bounce red light off a tablet that contains a powder that fluoresces. There is a very small time lag (nanoseconds) between when the red light hits the tablet and when it floresces. I blast the tablet with a high-frequency sine wave then use FFT (fast fourier transform) to measure the lag in response. This lag is proportional to the amount of O2 where the tablet is.

The cool thing is that it can be used in liquid, so works with beer! Once I get it working I'll watch the O2 deplete in my carboy during fermentation. Can't wait.

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passedpawn

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Not even a little bit true. At least not for electronics and mechanical designers.

I imagine this might be true for civil engineers that do sign off on bridges. God, I hope so.

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jsguitar

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That is epic passedpawn. If only I could understand everything you just said! No matter, I can still sense it's epicness.

VegasJ

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kinda sorta...

I do some civil engineering... but not bridges. Well, once I designed some truss frames that were for concrete forms to support a bridge they were pouring.

Wood truss designers actually engineering the trusses & system, just under the supervision of a civil engineer. Then he'll stamp the drawings after a review. Same goes for engineered wood products I design too, beams, joists, etc etc

HoppyDaze

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CPA don't call me accountant. I didn't spend four years in evil medical school to be called accountant. Wait ....

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Nightshade

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I understood i and it is a pretty cool project if it ends up working as expected.

weirdboy

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If you are an actual engineer you drive a train and wear a striped hat.

Seriously, I can name maybe 2-3 lifelong engineers I know personally that went through the PE process, including like a gazillion people I know that work at NASA. Are you saying NASA folks aren't engineers?

mtnagel

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Chemist. But my gf is a chemical engineer and so I have way too many engineer friends

Clonefan94

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Not an engineer. Graphic Designer by trade. Brewing beer definitely works with my wanting to create things though.